Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux and Unix, MacOS X and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before - and it looks good doing it! Up North, frost sparkles in the morning sunshine, while the Southern climes head into spring. All over the world, the Amarok team proudly presents Amarok 2.5, the most advanced release yet. Some of the features we are happy about: * GPodder.net podcast synchronization. * Re-written USB Mass Storage support. * The Windows version of Amarok is now officially declared stable. * Many bugfixes to the iPod plugin, thanks to Mat?j Laitl. * An integrated Amazon MP3 store. This major feature is the work of our web-entrepreneurs Sven and Justus. We have simplified the version scheme to 2 numbers again to reflect our development process. 2.5 is a big feature release and has many bugfixes. The next planned version will be 2.6, with new features. As promised, we've started a new year of donation mentions with the generous donators of the past Rocktober funding drive. Thank you all for contributing to Amarok, we hope you are pleased with this release. Other notable features that have been added in this release, include: * The ability to use iPod Touch 3G and possibly newer devices. * Transcoding: Now Amarok allows you to convert tracks from one file format to another when copying from the file browser to the local collection. We will expand this to media devices in future releases. * A new applet that fetches guitar and bass tab information for all your string instrument needs. * OPML export for Podcast subscriptions. * A map and calendar view for the upcoming events applet * Support for UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) collections, you can now listen to music from UPnP servers on the local network. Amarok 2.5 brings you the following major features: * Re-written USB Mass Storage support. * Many bugfixes to the iPod plugin, thanks to Mat?j Laitl. * An integrated Amazon MP3 store. This major feature is the work of our very own web-entrepreneurs Sven and Justus. If you have any icon/artwork skills: we need your help. * Much more.Release notes: New Release* KDE 4.8.0 * vlc 2.0.0 * phonon 4.6.0 * phonon-vlc 0.5.0 [ Amarok full changelog ]